tailieunhanh - HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD: Marian Gibbons and The Founding of Hollywood Heritage

The three individuals that have themost control over the final appearance of a filmare the director, the cinematographer, and the editor. The 160 films we have analyzed hadmore than 400 different such individuals, and each of themoften led teams of considerable size. Thus, popular films are a collective and collaborative product, and the causes for the general changes in film over time as shown in Figure 1 can only be sociological, even cultural. That is, through the cultural transmission and dissemination of filmmaking practices, through experimentation and technological innovation, and through continual inspection and evaluation of their results, the relatively small community of filmmakers has gradually changed their. | HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD Marian Gibbons and The Founding of Hollywood Heritage Marian Gibbons with James C. Simmons VI HOLLYWOOD FALLS ON HARD TIMES irector Frank Capra loved to tell the story about a group of Japanese soldiers on a Pacific island near the end of World War II. They had fled to a cave after the American invasion and appeared ready to die rather than surrender. The situation looked bleak. Capra recalled Finally some American GI had a bright idea Promise them a trip to Hollywood. It worked. The Japanese soldiers surrendered and after the war they eventually got their trip. For much of the past century Hollywood has endured as the film capital of the world and a symbol of glamour and hope to millions of people from Baltimore to Bombay. But while the idea of Hollywood continued to flourish the actual city went into sad decline in the sixties and seventies. When Gib and I had lived there back in 1949 a car trip to Hollywood was a gala event. This was a beautiful city then and a wonderful place to shop. But when I bought my house on Bryn Mawr Drive in 1978 Hollywood had fallen into a sorry state of decline with an unsavory reputation for flagrant prostitution blatant drug dealing and serious crime. In 1981 Time magazine characterized parts of Hollywood as weekend war zones. All the glamour and excitement of former years seemed to have left. Like many a starlet seduced and abandoned Hollywood showed those telltale signs of aging and destruction. An arsonist torched the Hollywood Library with its wondrous collection of books on film. The Hollywood Hotel and the legendary Garden of Allah were both lost to developers. While the Hollywood movies often were carefully preserved the city s landmarks were not. Like clips on the cutting-room floor many of the most important buildings in the city were lost to the wrecker s ball or 124 Hollywood Falls on Hard Times through neglect. Few people knew or cared about the historic buildings of Hollywood those relics from the .

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